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Football Association Votes To Implement Minimum Five-Match Ban For Racial Abuse05 / 17 / 13The FA "has voted to introduce a minimum ban of five matches for any player found to have racially abused an opponent," in the wake of the furore over the John Terry and Luis Suárez incidents, according to Owen Gibson of the London GUARDIAN. The proposal, accepted at the FA's annual general m... Tags: International Football, Europe |
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Uganda Disbands Rival Football Leagues
The Ugandan Cabinet on Wednesday "resolved to step into the dispute between the Federation of Uganda FA (FUFA) and the Uganda Super League Ltd. and disband the two national leagues (FSL and USL) in favour of a new Uganda Premier League," which will kick off at the start of the '13-14 season, accordi ...
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Police in Brazil have banned the use of the caxirola -- "the country's version of the vuvuzela" -- from a 2014 World Cup football stadium amid safety concerns. The type of maraca will be prohibited from a local match at Salvador's FonteNova stadium on Sunday after hundreds of the plastic objects wer ...
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Tebas Addresses LFP Match-Fixing
Spanish Football League (LFP) President Javier Tebas has "made clear his resolve to eradicate match fixing from Spanish football, as well as clean up clubs’ finances," according to FOOTBALL ESPAÑA. Tebas is "keen that ‘the small minority’ that attempt to fix games in Spain ...
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Girona FC Expects $30M From Promotion
Spanish Second Division Girona FC calculates that the economic impact it would receive from a promotion to La Liga would be approximately €23M ($30.1M), according to Ferran Cosculluela of EL PERIODICO. Girona President Joaquim Boadas Thursday presented a study based on the effects that promotio ...
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Football Notes
Argentinian football club Boca Juniors "will have to play its next home game behind closed doors, according to the sanction applied by the Football Security Committee for incidents during Sunday's Superclasico game against River Plate at La Bombonera stadium." Boca Juniors will serve its punishmen ...
Chelsea's Mourinho Talks Hit Snag
Chelsea’s negotiations to secure the return of coach José Mourinho "have reached an impasse over their refusal to pay the buyout clause in their former manager’s contract at Real Madrid," according to Matt Hughes of the LONDON TIMES. There "are also concerns at Stamford Bridge ove ...
Cape Town's Liverpool Friendly Canceled
South Africa's Premier Soccer League has stopped one of its clubs from playing a prestige friendly against Liverpool this month because "it would take publicity away from the country's cup final," according to Mark Gleeson of REUTERS. Ajax Cape Town has "been refused permission by the league to play ...
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Real Madrid footballer Michael Essien "has invited the whole Real Madrid team" and its coach José Mourinho to a charity game June 8 in Accra, Ghana, Essien's home country. Essien is behind the Game of Hope and Inspiration, "in which African players will play against the rest of the world." So ...
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SPL Clubs Agree On League Restructure
Scottish Premier League's 12 clubs have unanimously agreed on a package of measures that would deliver a merged league body in time for next season. The package includes a merged 42-club league and top-flight playoffs. The 12-10-10-10 divisional structure includes a pyramid for the entire game. A fo ...
Del Piero In Club, Federation Fight
A three-way showdown "is looming between Football Federation Australia, Sydney FC and Alessandro Del Piero over the star forward's availability" for the match between the A-League All Stars and ManU at ANZ Stadium on July 20, according Sebastian Hassett of the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD. The 38-year-old ...
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